Aaron_ssv
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Hi guys,
I bought my car in november, brand new. 3 weeks ago i got a full exhaust system put on, it has pacemaker headers, magnaflow cats and 3inch stainless steel x force cat back.
On friday i was driving and this ticking sound started happening from the engine, as the revs went higher the ticking became louder.. anyway to cut a long story short i had my car towed to holden, i was told by a family memeber who works at holden to not take the exhaust off and put the stock one back on becuase they will see that the exhaust has been tampered with, so i left it on. Anway they have pulled apart the engine and found 2 little fragments of metal (1/4 the size of a 5c peice) possibly weld in the combustion chamber and as damaged piston rings etc. Holden have told me that it is more than likely it has come from the exhaust via draw back at high rpm, can this happen? They are waiting to get it inspected by an engineer to see whether something has broken in the engine or if its from the exhasut. The exhaust was done 3 weeks ago so i was thinking if it was from there it would have happened straight away or at least in the first week?
What are your thoughts on the situation? should i wait till the report comes back and take it to the exhaust place? im sure they will say it wasnt them.
I dont even want to think about how much this will cost me.
cheers
Aaron
I bought my car in november, brand new. 3 weeks ago i got a full exhaust system put on, it has pacemaker headers, magnaflow cats and 3inch stainless steel x force cat back.
On friday i was driving and this ticking sound started happening from the engine, as the revs went higher the ticking became louder.. anyway to cut a long story short i had my car towed to holden, i was told by a family memeber who works at holden to not take the exhaust off and put the stock one back on becuase they will see that the exhaust has been tampered with, so i left it on. Anway they have pulled apart the engine and found 2 little fragments of metal (1/4 the size of a 5c peice) possibly weld in the combustion chamber and as damaged piston rings etc. Holden have told me that it is more than likely it has come from the exhaust via draw back at high rpm, can this happen? They are waiting to get it inspected by an engineer to see whether something has broken in the engine or if its from the exhasut. The exhaust was done 3 weeks ago so i was thinking if it was from there it would have happened straight away or at least in the first week?
What are your thoughts on the situation? should i wait till the report comes back and take it to the exhaust place? im sure they will say it wasnt them.
I dont even want to think about how much this will cost me.
cheers
Aaron